Ridley @ WATCH LYCORECO
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She/her. SWE at Discord. Why would you think the views expressed here *weren't* my own?
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Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again
Saw someone cite the Collective Shout thing and payment processors in regards to the Horse situation and say "Valve can't fight them by itself", and I think we maybe shouldn't be defending multi-billion dollar companies for arbitrary takedowns of artistic works and acting like they're the little guy
November 27, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Part of the 30% cut that Valve takes is the implicit agreement that they'll protect developers from the hassle of dealing with individual payment providers, and if they're not actually willing to go to bat for us, why are we paying them so much again
the hell is that doing there
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
the hell is that doing there
update: discord on iOS plays webm files in-app now
November 26, 2025 at 7:22 PM
update: discord on iOS plays webm files in-app now
@romchip.bsky.social hey, is there any reason your site returns a weird cross between a Teepublic page and an ad for Indonesian/Thai online gambling when the request's User-Agent field contains "Discordbot"? It means people linking to you on Discord get very strange embeds.
November 25, 2025 at 8:44 PM
@romchip.bsky.social hey, is there any reason your site returns a weird cross between a Teepublic page and an ad for Indonesian/Thai online gambling when the request's User-Agent field contains "Discordbot"? It means people linking to you on Discord get very strange embeds.
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"Disney, Apple, and Nintendo all have periods when they are on the back foot, business-wise, and out of desperation produce incredible examples of human ingenuity. When their businesses are successful they switch back to Complacence Mode and maximize profits while doing skeevy business politics."
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
"Disney, Apple, and Nintendo all have periods when they are on the back foot, business-wise, and out of desperation produce incredible examples of human ingenuity. When their businesses are successful they switch back to Complacence Mode and maximize profits while doing skeevy business politics."
re:creators is toxic yuri (relationship with a blast radius); I will not be elaborating
November 23, 2025 at 9:18 AM
re:creators is toxic yuri (relationship with a blast radius); I will not be elaborating
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TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
November 21, 2025 at 9:25 PM
TRUMP [after spending 5 minutes with Zohran]: surplus value, it’s a very wonderful thing, very wonderful, and they’re stealing it. Can you believe that?
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
We’re going to be looking very strongly at the bourgeoisie, what they’re up to
"in the original Japanese version, it's actually called HAL 8000"
November 22, 2025 at 1:25 PM
"in the original Japanese version, it's actually called HAL 8000"
No further comment
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 AM
No further comment
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when is Apple going to solve the biggest problem with their current product line and release an Apple TV remote with a built-in airtag (with speaker and UWB directional finding)
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 AM
when is Apple going to solve the biggest problem with their current product line and release an Apple TV remote with a built-in airtag (with speaker and UWB directional finding)
slot-loading combo player compatible with all disc media (vinyl, LD, mini-CD, CD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, UHD BD)
November 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
slot-loading combo player compatible with all disc media (vinyl, LD, mini-CD, CD, DVD, HD-DVD, BD, UHD BD)
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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi
OH: "traditional japanese key ceremony"
November 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
OH: "traditional japanese key ceremony"
for a trailer for "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie", that sure had a lot of Sunshine and Odyssey
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 PM
for a trailer for "The Super Mario Galaxy Movie", that sure had a lot of Sunshine and Odyssey
Virgin Punk ep1 review: Umetsu made Kite again, except with *slightly* less sexual violence, and with all the modern production value Shaft was able to throw at it
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
November 12, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Virgin Punk ep1 review: Umetsu made Kite again, except with *slightly* less sexual violence, and with all the modern production value Shaft was able to throw at it
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
if you liked Kite, you'll love this; if not, it's a tossup
ep2 eventually hopefully™
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The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The basic problem of health insurance: if you want sick people to be able to get insurance, then the insurance product ceases to be traditional insurance, bc the insurer cannot price risk. Once you accept that sick people should get insurance, you must accept some variety of a socialized system.
there are a bunch of great memes about softbank selling their Nvidia stake, but nobody seems to have actually read the article, where they explicitly say "we're doing this to raise cash to dump into OpenAI"
November 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
there are a bunch of great memes about softbank selling their Nvidia stake, but nobody seems to have actually read the article, where they explicitly say "we're doing this to raise cash to dump into OpenAI"
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
daily reminder that if a financial instrument increases the prices that buyers are able to pay, that just means sellers can charge more
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
November 9, 2025 at 4:26 AM
daily reminder that if a financial instrument increases the prices that buyers are able to pay, that just means sellers can charge more
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
30-year mortgages do this already and are toxic to the economy; 50-year mortgages would be a worse version of that
can I get a GLP-1 *ant*agonist, I want to eat more
November 7, 2025 at 7:59 PM
can I get a GLP-1 *ant*agonist, I want to eat more